then conor lamb came, and we saw it wasn't effective. the tax reform plan is underwater. it is worse today than when it was introduced last fall. the numbers keep getting softer for them on that plan. their effort is to distract. they are facing corruption and scandal within their own ranks. they have a leadership challenge, whether it is scalise, kevin mccarthy, who has been precluded from being speaker because of issues and is fast, and then you have jim jordan with what happened this summer. they are trying to distract from speaker because that. at the end of the day, we are focusing on economic issues. your counterpart on the right, cls -- what you are referring to as distractions. they are taking a burn it all down approach. do you have something when they are running these negative ads? charlie: a lot of the negativity they are running is scattershot at best. what we have seen is flailing from a message perspective. they make a lot of bold and bright osha's claims about bracke braggadocious claims that old, we are going to spend .hat the reality is they are on defen

conor lamb won that special election here last year, is running for re-election now in a tough seat.hance to ask what he thought about vice president biden potentially running in 2020. let's take a listen to what he told us a few minutes ago. >> he is someone who has fought for working people his whole career, over a long career, and people around here know that and don't forget it. >> reporter: would you encourage him not to give up politics, throw his hat in the ring for 2020? >> the people will decide that one. i'm sure he will. i'm just honored he is willing to get involved in an election in 2018 because he thinks it's the right thing to do. >> reporter: everybody is keeping their focus on the midterms, including vice president joe biden. i asked him earlier if this parade trip today here in pittsburgh was an audition of sorts for 2020. here's what he said to us earlier today. talk about what this means in terms of your political future. is this an audition for 2020? >> my political future? i have been with these guys my whole life. my grandfather, too. >> reporter: so as you see

and basically the formula for conor lamb to win was where in that district hillary had done well, he did better with hillary and where in the district obama had done relatively well he did better than obama. you want to rebuild what democrats lost with working-class whites and you want to try to keep continuing making these inroads with college-educated whites. and i think they've been showing in these elections you can do both of those. and that puts lots of different kind of districts this on the map. you have these affluent suburban districts like california 48 in orange county but you also have these districts in iowa where donald trump won iowa by like nine points. traditionally iowa's a swing state. but i think you have democrats looking at two very good pickup opportunities there and even an outside shot at steve king. >> yeah. i absolutely agree. and i think one of the things that this election is -- the midterm elections are going to pull out is that in fact this is not just a referendum on donald trump, although that is important, but it's also a referendum on what are the

ago, conor lamb was the future the democratic party. ocasio-cortezs a democratic socialist. they can't be the democratic party. brands. two different it doesn't look like one fatter. --party. that's the beauty of it. not a collective mindset. it's freedom. that's really the vision of freedom caucus. and our platform ideology. >> i made this point. i know i said it. media narrative is 20 years past its prime in republicans being the ideological party. you're more likely to find a proabortion, pro gay marriage life, pro than a pro gay marriage democrat. progressive, it do make me wonder if people in mediaover estimating the democratic wave >> it does. the pro-life issue, for example. just bornill that was alive act. isn't aborted successfully. the baby is actually alive. really rare scenario. there was a vote on that. voted foremocrats that. the position on life within the party is -- it is pretty monolithic. have a much more inclusive ideology. go back to -- you the democrats and look at partya and grand pa's when john f. kennedy was the icon. he's still celebrated. can do fo

then conor lamb came, and we saw it wasn't effective. it is worse today than when it was introduced last fall. the numbers keep getting softer for them on that plan. their effort is to distract. they are facing corruption and scandal within their own ranks. they have a leadership challenge, whether it is scalise , kevin mccarthy who has been precluded from being speaker, and jim jordan with what happened this summer. they are trying to distract from that .at the end of the day we are focusing on economic issues. rightr counterpart on the -- what you are referring to as distractions. they are taking a burn it all down approach. charlie: a lot of the negativity they are running is scattershot at best. what we have seen is flailing from a message perspective. they make claims about spending on this and that. the reality is they are on defense in these districts. they added $13 million in spending just this week in second and third tier districts. they just have this peripheral attack, because they are trying to distract from the issues at h

a few months ago, conor lamb was the future of the democratic party, and he's to the right of john kasich on some is he's -- some issues. then it's ocasio-cortez. if they can't span that gap somehow, they will probably be in the majority, but it doesn't look like one party. if you look at our ideology as republicans, that the beauty of it. it's not a collectivist mindset. it's individual liberty, freedom, and that's the position of the freedom caucus. host: i know i've said this already today. so much of the media narrative is 20 years past its prime, republicans being the ideological party, when you are more likely to find a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage republican than you are to find a pro-life democrat. the growing ideological underpinnings of the democratic party really do make me wonder if people in the media are overestimating the democratic wave. the ideology scares a whole lot of people. rep. davidson: if you look at the pro-life issue, for example, we had a bill called the born alive act. attended abortion, the baby isn't aborted successfully, so the baby is actually alive -- r

>> i said conor lamb and she is the future of the party, doug jones is the future of the party. we have a party that reflects america and every zip code. a party fighting for health ca care. a party that's is fighting for fair wages, fighting for democracy that works for everyone. not just a few at the top. your question about wages, it's important for your listeners to understand that, real wage growth is what it's about. if wages go up by a dollar and your cost of living goes up by a dollar fifty you're not better off. that's the problem with this economy. if this president could take on the pharmaceutical industry we could do something about itt dd the most important thing to do is making sure we get the vote out everywhere. and we're actually working next week to call onan i'm going to r mcdaniel to join us in that. we should have this debate then make sure that every eligible person -- >> brennan: point taken. we got to leave it there. thank you very much. we'll bring out here republican chair ronna mcdaniel next. >> always a pleasure. a moment of joy. a source of inspirati

conor lamb would not have won that special election if this national environment isn't as bad as thesuggested it is. i'm looking across a slew of indicators and they're all pointing in the same direction, that's a bad year for the republicans. bad enough they lose control of the house? we'll wait and see. certainly right now it is pointing that way. >> right. as you said, most important poll is the poll on election day. harry, mark, rachael, thank you for taking time out of your labor day holiday. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, the pentagon is confirming the death of the isis leader in afghanistan. how significant is this for the larger war there. >>> scientists now believe that microwave weapons are behind the mysterious attacks on u.s. diplomats in cuba and in china. we'll be live in havana, that's ahead. the fact is, there are over ninety-six hundred roads named "park" in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your sid

that's why conor lamb is the congressman from pennsylvania a district that trump won by 20 points. that's why doug jones is a u.s. senator from alabama. when you talk about healthcare and talk about the economy and environment, when you talk about simple things that make sense to the heart beats of the american soul, democrats are campaigning on those things. >> harris: antjuan seawright thank you very much. deneen borelli i leave you with this. it's fascinating the current president getting out to help people and get the job done as presidents are often called to do. your party, antwon is looking back to a president who hasn't been in office. what does the future hold? we'll talk next time you are on. thank you. >> thank you. >> harris: up next, president trump calls on jeff sessions to investigate who is behind that explosive unnamed source op-ed. saying it's a matter of national security that we find out. james fitzgerald, the former fbi linguist who helped find the union bomber through his manifestos, he sees some clues in the writing. wave to us, if you can, because you are up

23 states that democrats need, some good men can win two, we are really excited about that, go conor lamb. to deliver the majority of the majority incoming class and we in fact are in nearly 50 red to blue pickup seats. bywill see a lot of activity anil's list and a lot of those seeds and we think we are in a 23, maybeo maybe had a few more, maybe a few less, we will see what the voters decide. but they are in position to do that. and that's extra ordinary. >> we will definitely be watching. how would you say the agenda of 'sesident donald trump administration has changed or altered the work at emily's list? ms. schriock: it made it even more important than it already was. wasbeauty of emily's list in ellen's simplicity of mission. which was we're going to go out and we're going to elect pro-choice democratic women to office. 1985, ourtarted in first candidate ever by the way was barbara mikulski, who was running for senate for the first time in an era where a democrat woman had never won a seat in the united states senate in her own right when we started. now for some of you and we start

elections and helping a lot of the candidates like those that we just saw him with, bob casey, conor lambe in pennsylvania. >> great job getting those questions answered. obviously everyone is looking to 2020. a lot of the folks on that judiciary committee are the people who joe biden would potentially be running against if he decided to get in the race. at the very top when he came out and the reporters first went out, we missed what he said. what was he talking about what he came out of the church? he went to mass this morning, right? >> i asked him, what's your message? he said everything is at stake. that's been a pretty consistent message from him. he's been one of the most sought after surrogates. he's also talked to a lot of these candidates. his message is very simple. the republicans are not doing what needs to be done in terms of holding the president accountable. they're looking out for themselves. the president is looking out for himself. the democrats should run on the message that we're looking out for you. he's going to be marching in this parade here in the next two hours.

. >> the democrats that have had success, whether it's doug jones or ralph northam or conor lamb, they've been genericfied in their own way. >> i have this theory we'll wake up the day after the election and you'll see a lot of candidate who is ran with ralph northam and doug jones' persona have done better than those that maybe were louder and more feisty. we'll see. maybe i'm wrong. i mean, that's the bet some are making. but that's the pattern that i feel like we've ignored. >> and that only gets you so far. >> it gets you through a lot -- >> in a midterm, angry can get you a lot in a midterm. >> that's true. >> it can. >> but after the midterms -- >> okay, we'll pause it. here up ahead, brett kavanaugh under the microscope. the second day of the supreme court confirmation hearings and they're just as heated as day one. ♪ this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone e

go, conor lamb! but we'd like to deliver the majority of the majority incoming class. and is we, in fact, are in nearly 50 red to blue pick-up seats. you're going to sea a lot of activity, and we think we're in a position to maybe hit 23, maybe a few more, maybe a few less. we'll see what the voters decide. but they're in position to do that. and that's extraordinary. >> well, we'll definitely be watching. >> thank you. >> yes. how would you say the agenda of president donald trump's admission has changed or all ald the work at emily's list? >> it's just made it even more important than it already was. the beauty of emily's list was in ellen's simplicity of mission which was we're going to go out and we're going to elect pro-choice democratic women to office. and that started 1985 our first candidate ever, by the way, was barbara mikulski, who was running for senate for the first time in an era where women -- a democratic woman had never won a seat in the united states senate in our other than right when we started. now, for some of you; that was a long time ago, but f

if you think that a right of center kind of blue dog democrat a la conor lamb or ralph northam, the guyshave been racking up victories for the democratic party are going to get the nomination for the presidency you're fooling yourself. >> here's where you could be wrong. i think folks like us have been around for a long time. we have an electability test, an electability standard as if the world didn't change a lot with obama and even more with trump. i think people are more interested now in authenticity than credibility. i think if you are an authentic believer in your policies and your politics, you're going to get a 10 or 15-point bump just because you're just not taking your talking points from a pollster or reading stuff out -- >> it would be nice if they could go together. it would be nice that you could be authentic but not be full of it every time you open your mouth. that would be nice. >> there are some races where there are really, really good candidates in the democratic party on your side that are extremely authentic. i don't want to give free air time to your side, but the

. >> i covered in southwestern pennsylvania the election of conor lamb.perceived as a centered democrat. then we watched what happened in new york city with the elected congresswoman. she is being perceived as much more progressive. are we in the media making too much of this or what direction do you think the democratic party should go? >> extracts one a democrat that fit their district -- districts want a democrat that can fit their district. we can be a narrow party in the middle or far left, but we will not win. if we want to win, we have to embrace more views that represent the majority. >> that comes at a time or many folks think the balance of power is hanging in the balance. critical of nancy pelosi. speaker, not run for but the time for a new generation of leadership is here. >> what does that mean? >> we need a generation with a vision of the future and not talk about how terrible trumpets. we need leaders who will bring our party together and embrace diversity. and, we need leaders to build the bench rather than clear it. that is what i'm looki